Apple iPhone 5 Coming to AT&T, Sprint and Verizon in October
Sprint Nextel will begin selling Apple’s iPhone 5 in mid-October, people familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal. If this is true Sprint will close a huge gap in Sprint’s line-up and give Apple another channel for selling its phone.
According to the report, Verizon Wireless and AT&T will begin selling the phone in mid-October as well. Sprint also will carry the iPhone 4 at the same time, the source told the paper. No word on pricing or exact dates, but we have no reason to think this is a false rumor!
This a big win for Sprint, which had blamed a decline in subscribers to competition from Verizon and AT&T, which both were able to sell the popular phone. However, there may be some concern about Apple’s business as some had expected that the iPhone 5 would be released by the end of September, which would have put those sales in Apple’s third quarter. Now, those expected sales will be shifted into the fourth quarter.
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